Pious
in example sentence
Socrates is convinced that Euthyphro would not prosecute his own father without being absolutely certain that it is the
pious
thing to do.
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So in the 20th century, you had this vicious cycle in the Arab world, where you have a dictatorship suppressing its own people, including the Islamic pious, and they're reacting in reactionary ways.
And the
pious
Muslims in Turkey saw that they could change the political system by voting.
Now, there's the more urban middle-class
pious
Muslims who, again, look at their tradition and see that there are some problems in the tradition, and understand that they need to be changed and questioned and reformed.
That's why the EU process, Turkey's effort to join the EU, has been supported inside Turkey by the Islamic pious, while some secular nationalists were against it.
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